2000's in Review

Here is a summary of the first decade from Saturday, 2000-01-01 to Thursday, 2009-12-31: the first ten years of the 2000's in review as seen through my eyes. Here are some highlights of mine, Joey Arnold Original Oatmeal.



basketball
WOLBI
Revolution Hawaii
ABC: Appalachian Bible College
Lincoln Hawk
Tiffany Cumbo died
Girl's Basketball Manager
Mission Trip to Quebec, Canada
Wilderness Counselor at Camp Kuratli of Trestle Glen
Paper Mario
Snow Camp
Ranch
Uncle Jim Williams died
Maternal Grandpa Dick Morehead died

Green Oatmeal on Comcast's WANTED Adventure Host

I auditioned at the Memorial Colliseum, on a Sunday morning, on one of the last Sundays of of the month of October in the year 2009, for a brand new TV show series called WANTED Adventure Host, season 1, where they look for a Television personality that can host their own show on the Comcast Sport Net channel 38, which airs in the northwest of USA, in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, and places like that.


I lied to them because I wanted to see if they could tell if I was lying, and I was also trying to be funny when they asked me if I had experience, by saying no, but that is why I have lovely producers and judges like them and that together we make the world greener with one oatmeal at a time.

The Last House On The Left

When I visited Lincoln Hawk in Long Beach, California, United States, we went to see in the cinema the action-pack gore-filled The Last House On The Left. It was surreal and scary and Lincoln wasn't happy about seeing it. Somebody must have told him that it was so great but maybe not so much.



Thursday: 14th of May 2009
24 years old
A cinema in Long Beach, California, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Animals Are Dying

Animals Are Dying.

I wrote and sang and played on guitar the song Animals Are Dying during the 2nd or so week of April 2009 after spending around 10 days with Lincoln Hawk in Long Beach, California USA.

I wrote this song for the Fur Protesters who march and shout and chant and yell with signs in front of a fur shop in Portland, Oregon USA, just blocks from my apartment.

Months later, one of those guys allegedly sets himself on fire in protest, to get publicity towards the awareness that animals are skinned alive.

2nd week of April 2009
24 years old
On the streets of Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Space Man & Diaper Boy.

The Greyhound bus delivered me (from Portland, Oregon, to Long Beach, California, United States) to the hands of my friend Lincoln Hawk for ten days (in April 2009) of adventure where we even made the hit short-film and musical number "Space Man & Diaper Boy" which stars Lincoln Hawk as the Space Man and stars me as the disturbed college room-mate in the diaper, thus my name as the Diaper Boy.

I later wrote and performed on my guitar (back in PDX) my hit single "Animals Are Dying" in memory of the protest against animal cruelty.

This was in April 2009.

Parts of this may have been at the end of March, as well.

Katie Gives Me a Guitar

Katie Gives Me a Guitar

This was for my birthday, the 11th of February 2009, when I was turning 24 years old. My older sister, Katie Jean Arnold, got me a black round-back guitar, that actually came from the then-boyfriend Forest. I think I had duct-tape on my glasses at that time. I met Katie and my younger sister Crystal at a café in Portland, OR USA. Forest was there this time, I believe. In April, I write and perform on guitar the song Animals Are Dying.


2009
26 years old
Portland, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold